Minto URGES Jack Grealish TO DO MORE If He Wants To KEEP England Place After Impressing Vs Ireland

I think it was a good start solid first 45 minutes I was a little bit disappointed there weren't more changes at the start of the second half or Midway through the second half because I wanted to see England go on and be ruthless and kill the the game off they didn't do that they they sort of took their foot off the gas a little bit and I think the the reason for that probably is that it's his first game he doesn't want to rot the boat it was going well there a two- goal cushion there was a change of momentum halfway through once Sheamus Coleman came off and OG Benny went to right wing back and it did just force Gordon back a little bit so there was a slight tactical Twigs but overall I think you could say good debut let's go again on on Tuesday night and see what they can come up with yeah no absolutely I thought it's more than a solid first half I thought you know clean sheet scoring goals solid first half's probably missed step I I mean it was a very good first half very good first half well played yeah second half I thought they could have done a little bit more no absolutely you know I thought first half they were excellent I mean really very very good and if they were able to keep that for the full 90 minutes then you know I'm very wor of going over the top as well as I say I can't judge Lee Carley until he gets the big boys in we see who's going to play where I think the plays that he had this the choice First Choice was right the system was right I still think it's going to be interesting once Bellingham foden and Palmer's in does he do 42 31 if so who plays where and you know does Jack greish play as a as a number 10 I don't think he will um and just on that first goal as well as much as I really want Jack to do well first and foremost for Manchester City and then be a regular in the land side I looked I looked at that first goal and I I I watched it a couple of times in in the replays and Dean rice runs past him to get into that position why does that bother you because I'm seeing I want my number 10 to get into a position to score goals yeah but he did score a goal he scored he scored the second one he got into a great position to do that isn't that just semantic really because actually one of the beauties of the performance yesterday was the fact that everyone was interchanging a little bit and people were moving around listen you want to see a team game but in terms of on trial who who Who's who's on trial here Jack greish as a number 10 absolutely one of them and I kind of want to be sitting here now saying two-nil England 2N greish and it's just for me a little it's it's a very slight nitpick because I think Jack played well he did play well and he did do well but again I don't see him when everyone else is coming back him playing in that position it's going to be fascinating to see if he does and do you then not play Bellingham and you not play foden in those positions but I I I want him to almost like do you know what I'm going to grasp this nettle I'm not just going to score one goal I'm going two I'm going to be the best player on the pitch I'm going to be man of the match he's admitted he's not 100% fit so I'm perhaps asking a bit too much of him but I also know what he's capable of and and that that mentality is either there or it's not whether you're 100% fit or not so again I don't want it to look like I'm you know being completely negative but I just want him to be running past Dean rice because Dean rice is the holder stroke eight and he's the number 10 and he's sniffing a bit of d here did you did you think his overall performance was as good as it should have been do you think he could have done more was he playing as slightly within himself I I think this is where you you don't judge him as much because of his lack of fitness and he was very open after the game I think it's difficult to say you dominate the whole game but then it's about moments if you're not 100% fit it's about moments so do you want him play again on Tuesday or do you think he's done enough in this International I want I want him to almost give a headache to Lee Carley that when the Bellingham foden Palmer come back for the next International break it's like whoa you know what are we going to do with Jack here so do you want him today to go into Lee Cari knock on that well actually they don't do that because he's a big coaching table in the middle of St George's Park to next to the next to the dining room so he could just walk into it right so he's got so the coaching up slightly different now so that the idea is is that players can just always be in the eyeline of the coaches and can approach them at any time and they can have like very small oneon-one conversations whenever so you you expect him to take advantage of that walk in and say Lee I need to play on Tuesday I want to play on Tuesday I want to show everyone what I can do aty absolutely I mean you know he he he had a really tough season last season and you know you could see how much it hurt him not being picked for the Euros he's he's not sort of started a really good preseason but then he got injured and he's not been playing for City and people are questioning whether he can actually be a regular for City and he's got to be you can you can argue and I probably would be in the camp that city is a better team than England you got to be playing for your Club to be playing for your country interesting what fans make of it 0371 7234 for what did you make the highlights yesterday did you think that that Jack really stood out I really like the interaction between Harry Kane and uh Anthony Gordon I don't think Kane was at his best but I like the idea if you're going to have a Kane that drops deep and Spins then you need to have someone who's incredibly fast over the top and who takes that position and that's Anthony Gordon Sam is what we was crying out for in the in the summer it's exactly what he wanted not a feel foding coming in on the left who want someone hurting especially if Harry Kane is not fit again it's a fascina situation what's going to happen he say he by the way he says no excuses I was fit then he was extremely poor and he should have been dropped he should have been dropped whatever he he wasn't good enough I mean we weren't I was waiting for him to come and come and if he i i i my argument to people was like oh Kan should be dropped I was like no you watch he's not 100% fit he's going to get stronger in the tournament and he's going to come on if he was fit from the start and he was playing that poorly and as much as I love Harry Kane then he should have been playing in the latter stages of that competition is quite simple but with Ian only gone to Saudi and Ole watkins's not around that that that's that's a semi- problem position well 100 caps up for Harry Kane on Tuesday night they're not going to do all the pump and and ceremony around that on Tuesday night whether he gets it or not because he may not be involved in the game but if he is involved in the game they'll do it in October I think he's got some family coming over in October to celebrate it I think they're going to concentrate on praying tribute to fenor and Erikson on Tuesday so they're going to move all of the sort of you know the the golden cap and all that that kind of stuff to the October break and I think that just that's good because we all know that it's happening but I tell you what I think Tuesday will be if he does make his 100th cap it' be a great day to be there yeah you know I know tickets are still available so if you can get down please try and get down to Wembley because I think full Wembley 100th cap I think that' be great it would be an historic moment for sure and I think if if people can get down there then then then definitely and I know that the England ads would would support that and really appreciate it but look I don't want to come across as being negative I feel like I am in a way I I'm nitpicking something but it's like I I don't want to go overboard on the positivity because I think it was a very good first half go over I'm not going overboard on the negativity either but I'm looking at is Jack greish you know when everybody's fit going to be playing number 10 what do we do with Harry Kane if this is the best we got at the moment but he will come good and he scored obviously you know scoring goals of fun in Bayern Munich again my for me a lot of positives Anthony Gordon I think we look solid I think Dean rice was superb I think Jack greish listen what happened here man Dean rice about going back to iseland I thought both of them dealt with the situation really really well and different ways you know Jack reveled in it and liked playing the pantomim villain and he sort of you know smiled and enjoyed it and that was quite cool as well you know and and Dean rice was slightly different a little bit more sort of downplayed because he want to respect his Irish grandparents I don't have a problem with that by the way they just you know it's an individual choice you know it's up to him how he wants to do it I think actually him behaving like that probably irked the Irish more we know that Barry was by the fact that I pointed out that he uh that they would be Green With Envy over over the fact that that Dean scored but anyway you know we can't you can't have everything I want to ask you a couple more questions it was very good by the way it was it was good verging on very good but let's let's hold our horses absolutely because you can't overblow the fact that they've beaten a team ranked in the you know outside the top 50 when they've played good football previously and and and you know people pointing this out today you know Germany in the last European championships Ukraine Sagal at the World Cup the Dutch in the semi-final the first half of that game they played very very well and they're a higher grade opposition so they're not immune to playing good football they they have done that before but we want to see that more on a consistent basis I thought the tempo was really good I want to talk to you about that and I also want to talk to you about left back because Levi cwell played there and did a good job I thought yesterday uh we'll talk about that because I know you're you're big on leg left backs aren't you almost as much as you are on top man modeling contracts almost almost on am on da via the talk sport app and on your smart speaker talk sport